This engraved print, by Philips Galle (1537–1612) and Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), depicts the brutal and ruthless crackdown by King Josiah of Judah (r....
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755/1757-1804)
"Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle...
This blue painting, by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), re-creates a storied scene from the early life of Moses, the famous Hebrew...
In 566 or 567, two Visigoth sisters married two Frankish brothers. The brides were Galswintha and Brunhild, daughters of King Athanagild of the Visigoths...
Joseph Mallord William Turner (c. 1775–1851), an English painter usually known for bright, colorful and picturesque landscapes, decided on a darker theme for this...
